Unmaking Architecture from New York

Demolition and re-use materials management tool

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    Glass. Holding Patterns provide a destination for material that would otherwise be trashed.

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    With this model the entire library can be matched onto an adjustable shape, allowing for a holistic optimization where all elements simultaneously arranged. Heavy Concrete elements are transported into place by barge, and lifted by crane into new temporary assemblies. Material is no longer discarded, but rather put into new holding patterns that can maintain valuable material through generations.

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    70% of a buildings structure exists in the floor plate. The slab saw can extract such material.

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    Floor-plates. Optimisation of the arrangement using computational modelling methods.

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    Rubble. Geometry is translated into a library of points that can be analyzed in the sorting phase.

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    Rubble. Sorting and arranging elements into an arch.

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    Rubble. Optimization of the arrangement of elements using computational modelling methods.

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    Glass. Pavilion Constructed from 178 irregular planes.

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    Glass. Prototype model that presents a pattern that can adapt to the irregular glass provided.

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    Daniel Jonathan Meiklejon Marshall – Teaching Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dept. of Architecture.

  • Next generation Next Generation 1st prize 2020–2021 North America

By Daniel Marshall - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Architecture, Cambridge, MA, USA

Ideas: Circular Design, Circular Materials & Building Components

An artificial-intelligence-based tool to optimize re-use and bring new life to demolition rubble.

Unmaking Architecture from New York

Project authors

  • Unmaking Architecture – New York
    Daniel Marshall

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Architecture

    USA

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